You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.